Trump rally attendees sue San Jose
Fourteen attendees of a San Jose Trump rally on June 2 have filed a class-action suit against the city, the mayor, and the police chief for their failure to protect them from rioters.
“Law-abiding citizens leaving the Trump rally were victimized by being forced by armed police to walk into a riot in full swing where many were assaulted while police looked on,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Harmeet K. Dhillon, who is also the vice chair of the California Republican Party.
Dhillon says her clients range from a 14-year-old who was assaulted by two different individuals and denied assistance by the San Jose Fire Department to a 71-year-old woman whose glasses were ripped off and destroyed by three rioters. She said it was made clear that the “inaction” of 250 San Jose police officers “was colored by political viewpoint considerations.”
As documented at the time, the San Jose police actually arranged things so that the Trump supporters were forced to take a detour that would put them directly in the path of the violent protesters, and then stood down and watched them get attacked.
I hope they win big, and bankrupt the mayor and the police chief.
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Fourteen attendees of a San Jose Trump rally on June 2 have filed a class-action suit against the city, the mayor, and the police chief for their failure to protect them from rioters.
“Law-abiding citizens leaving the Trump rally were victimized by being forced by armed police to walk into a riot in full swing where many were assaulted while police looked on,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Harmeet K. Dhillon, who is also the vice chair of the California Republican Party.
Dhillon says her clients range from a 14-year-old who was assaulted by two different individuals and denied assistance by the San Jose Fire Department to a 71-year-old woman whose glasses were ripped off and destroyed by three rioters. She said it was made clear that the “inaction” of 250 San Jose police officers “was colored by political viewpoint considerations.”
As documented at the time, the San Jose police actually arranged things so that the Trump supporters were forced to take a detour that would put them directly in the path of the violent protesters, and then stood down and watched them get attacked.
I hope they win big, and bankrupt the mayor and the police chief.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
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From the article: “Liccardo, a backer of Hillary Clinton, also was accused of ordering officers to stand down as Trump supporters were being attacked, a claim Police Chief Eddie Garcia has called ‘absurd.'”
Well, somebody coordinated the incident. If Chief Garcia is saying that it wasn’t Mayor Liccardo, then he must think that it was somebody else. Could it be Garcia, himself?
From the article: “‘I have a lot of control over my officers, but my officers do not know the meaning of the term stand down,’ Garcia said at the time. ‘They would not follow that order nor would I ever expect them to.'”
Interesting that he thinks that his officers would be so insubordinate. The reason the order stand down exists is that sometimes it is needed. Garcia did not say that under the circumstances his officers would not be expected to let fellow citizens be mauled by rioters, he said that his officers would disobey orders under any circumstances — which includes circumstances of the officers themselves getting emotional and out of control and mauling citizens. That makes those officers much more dangerous than we had previously believed.
This was one of the ugliest events in modern American history, certainly since Democrats sicked police dogs on protesters down South 50 years ago. It received scant attention from the media.
It happened in more than one city too. I wouldn’t be surprised if it continues to happen and people actually get killed rather than just beat up.
We are witnessing, in real time, the unfolding of fascism in this country. I am a professional historian, and I don’t use that phrase lightly. It is the same thing that took place in Europe many decades ago, where freedom of expression was at first shouted down, and then stoned and beaten and later, shot, down. And now it happens on camera, and Americans . . . yawn.
To me, it is proof we have already lost the Republic. Now the question is only this: What will take its place?